The Role of Social Media in The Future

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One of the major complaints on the far-right media bubbles is that Parler was taken down, while Facebook and Twitter continue. These two were not de-platformed. To be fair, the complainers have a small point. While Twitter has been more proactive about doing something about calls for violence and organization on its platform, Facebook been in denial for years. If you are a user and have reported anti-Semitic or racist screeds, you likely share the experience that they do not go against community standards. Until recently Mark Zuckerberg said that Holocaust denial was a-ok on his platform. This is at the core of white supremacy, even when un-ironically some say that six million was not enough.

the stance that Zuckerberg took was that it was a free speech issue. Never mind that genocide denial is in the cycle of genocide and it was a clear opening for far-right groups to happily organize. It also led to actual genocide pushed forwards on the platform.

Facebook has long promoted itself as a tool for bringing people together to make the world a better place. Now the social media giant has acknowledged that in Myanmar it did the opposite, and human rights groups say it has a lot of work to do to fix that.

Facebook failed to prevent its platform from being used to “foment division and incite offline violence” in the country, one of…